Re: Theme change?

I updated the forum. Thanks to the no-support design of this lovely FOSS forum, I have to redo the theme from scratch every time they decide to rearrange the theme format. This also means that the old "dark" theme, Silence, is completely broken, even though I updated it to the latest version before giving up and removing it.

I'll have to redo the colors, and bug the developers about why they hard coded a fixed width into the forum theme even though I have it configured to 100% in the settings.

Do you know which elements changed/were affected by the update? Wondering how usable would be to retain the original stylesheets and just adjust for the changed elements from the update.

Re: Theme change?

Well, the problem with long lines in multiline text is that it substantially lowers readability once over the recommended threshold (60 - 75 chars). Although forums are a bit specific, since the posts are usually very short, it's still not a good idea to have the lines overly long.

Re: Theme change?

But since you're redesigning things, would it be possible to have back the multiple pages of "recent topics" that was on the front page of the old-old theme? If I don't log in for a few days, I have to go hunt into each individual forum for recent posts that I might have missed, where before one could just click on subsequent pages of recent topics right from the front page.

Re: Theme change?

Remaining bugs that I've encountered:- Missing forum icon (both in desktop and mobile view): https://imgur.com/8ksqbls- White border around avatar in mobile view (the easiest workaround is to center image, to make the border less prominent): https://imgur.com/HX9btpx

Missing features from the old skin: recent posts panel in mobile view.

Also text color on quick reply buttons and post edit buttons should be probably black for consistency with other buttons.

Re: Theme change?

I'm trying the "lite" theme right now, and the buttons at the top are also broken in the "mobile" version (narrow aspect).

In general it seems things stopped being visible, etc. The scroll-arrows on the left are now just outlines of the clickable areas, and pretty much all buttons seems to be kinda miss-aligned or something. In the mobile version, the button for the Wiki is not present at all, while the icon for the Forum is just an empty box, but at least it's clickable.

Re: Theme change?

Re: Theme change?

I used to be able to search by keyword within a single thread. Now, as far as I can see, it is only possible to narrow the search down to sub-boards. Did I overlook some menu item or command button? If not, is there any plan to restore the functionality or is it a permanent change?Search by thread is extremely important, I'd dare say vital, for foobies browsing the jscript support thread, to give but one example.

Re: Theme change?

I used to be able to search by keyword within a single thread. Now, as far as I can see, it is only possible to narrow the search down to sub-boards. Did I overlook some menu item or command button? If not, is there any plan to restore the functionality or is it a permanent change?Search by thread is extremely important, I'd dare say vital, for foobies browsing the jscript support thread, to give but one example.

Go the topic that you want to search in first and then define the search term.The search will display entries from that topic.